Top 100 Apology Quotes

I’ve made apologies to people I needed to, but I can’t apologise to people I don’t know for things they don’t understand.

On behalf of everyone at the DNC, we want to offer a deep and sincere apology to Senator Sanders, his supporters, and the entire Democratic party for the inexcusable remarks made over email. These comments do not reflect the values of the DNC or our steadfast commitment to neutrality during the nominating process.

In the movie ‘Star Trek 3: The Return of Spock,’ I’m a really bad Klingon, and I really enjoyed playing that – somebody who’s totally unscrupulous. It’s like he was not genetically equipped to feel compassion or sensitivity. Just outright evil without apology.

I make no apology about being a hillbilly.

What is for sale, what is not? If we really think that making your apologies to your wife or reading a bedside story to your child are activities that we can pay a stranger to do, then, without moralising, what has happened to us?

With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that, I make no apologies. I do like to see the best in people, and when someone is nice to my face, I tend to believe them.

I don’t ask for an apology because it’s only tomorrow’s fish-and-chip paper.

Perhaps the most satisfying thing occurred when Michael Jordan became a team owner and said to me, ‘I owe you a lot of apologies. It’s a lot harder to run a team than I thought.’

Sometimes all you’re looking for is an apology.

Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made. Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.

We make no apology for being bold and ambitious.

In GOP land, apologies and resignations are never enough.

I’m never going to make apologies for trying to create a kind of society and a kind of community where my kids will be proud to grow up in.

I am the type of person who believes an apology should be sincere and from the heart.

Friends are God’s apology for relations.

I will make no apologies, ever, for protecting the lives and the safety of the American people. We have to give more tools to our folks to be able to do that, not fewer, and then trust those people and oversee them to do it the right way. As president, that is exactly what I’ll do.

I believe that things should be let go once they are discussed. Apology accepted. End of story.

An apology offered and, equally important, received is a step towards reconciliation and, sometimes, recompense. Without that process, hurts can rankle and fester and erupt into their own hatreds and wrongdoings.

I wouldn’t give Charles Barkley an apology at gunpoint. He can never expect an apology from me… If anything, he owes me an apology for coming to play with his sorry, fat butt.

I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.

Leading up to this fight Julian Williams talked, and I held it in. I did what I had to do to become the champion of the world and I deserve my respect. He disrespected me all the way up to the fight. I said I don’t want your congratulations, I want your apology. I don’t care what they say, I knocked him out.

Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.

My objective with men at 2nd and 3rd is to get one quality pitch to drive them in. If it’s not available, I’m going to go to first base. I won’t make any apologies about that.

I don’t know if there is redemption for people like Charlie Rose or Garrison Keillor. An apology helps, but what really matter are deeds.

I don’t drink wine during the day. Not even a little. Otherwise, the rest of the day is an apology.

Everyone knows I’m black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised, and I make no apology for it. At the same time, I’m never going to pull a race card to get what I want. You can’t have it both ways.

I’m not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies.

I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.

I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I’m on stage, I’m at a microphone… it’s a joke!

I made the apologies that needed to be made, and so I didn’t feel that Media Matters was a continuing form of saying I was sorry.

Apologies are great, but they don’t really change anything. You know what does? Action.

We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he’s also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.

When we talk about feminism – equality without apology for all – we can’t be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.

First off, I’m not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford’s apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures.

I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

There are no apologies for being a female in heavy metal and especially not in 2019.

I am determined to offer an apology with my death.

We as Democrats have no apologies to make to anyone.

In the grownup world an apology tour is just for show.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

I didn’t want the responsibility, I didn’t know how to handle the responsibility of speaking for the gay community. I always felt like I owed them a huge apology for coming out too late.

Decades later I would look into my father’s eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer’s with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

I apologies to my fans, teammates and the Grizzlies organization for regrettably not doing the necessary research about what supplements I can put in my body.

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

Nobody wants an apology letter 14 years later.

You know, I’m really bad at apologies. I’m just really bad at ’em.

Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people’s behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.

Trump apologized for nothing, including the horrible tape, right? No apology.

I sing ‘All Apologies’ with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it’s a different story.

I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.

To me, as I see it, reparations would be something that is fairly specific to the descendants of slaves, and it would also be an official apology from the United States government for slavery.

If a heartfelt apology on Twitter isn’t enough to restore some small semblance of faith in humanity, I don’t know what is.

More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

Apologies always seem to me like excuses.

True story: In the spring, my first in K.C., I’d written a series of columns in the Star demanding the Royals front office give fans discounted prices at concession stands as an apology for the 1994 strike. The Royals acquiesced.

A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Authentic apology is a tricky thing to pull off in politics, which is why it so seldom occurs. Plausible deniability must be preserved. True contrition has to be displayed. Traitors to the cause must be immediately be jettisoned. Most of all, the goal is to stop the bleeding.

There’s never really been a true apology for slavery.

I want you to answer this question: Why should you settle for anything less than an authentic conservative who will fight for your views and values without an apology? Think about that.

I’m not sure about public apologies on behalf of other people as far as the motivation for them.